Facebook Site Linking Support

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Published on 2009-12-07T22:02:40Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 19:23 UTC
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When someone posts a link to a web site in Facebook, it populates the link preview box with a photo and some text from the site.

If someone posts a link to my site in Facebook, it is generally just get the site's domain name and one of the images that appears on the site. No text appears.

I would like to be able to control what text and images appear in the link. Is there a specification that they use? Can I provide some metadata so Facebook will display what I want?

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